Oct 3, 2023 at 3:41 PM Update: 4 minutes ago
The parents who left their baby alive in an underground waste container in 2021 were sentenced to fifteen months in prison on Wednesday. The judge also took into account that they also killed and buried a baby in 2019.
This concerns juvenile detention, because the parents were minors when they committed the crime. In addition, they must cooperate in behavioral treatment. The two are now twenty years old. Due to their ages, the case was heard behind closed doors.
The court took into account in the judgment that the parents had also killed and buried a baby in 2019. In that case, according to the court, it concerns murder. The judge assumes attempted murder of the baby found in the container.
In both cases, the suspects decided that the baby would not be left alive, the judge ruled. According to the judge, the pair show “hardly any insight” into their motives. In addition, they have made “completely unbelievable” statements.
For example, during interrogations they said that they thought the child in the container was dead. But according to the court, chats, among other things, show that this is not true. “From everything you texted each other, it appears that you knew she was still alive.”
“Extremely serious and shocking facts, heinous acts,” the court ruled on both cases.
‘Container Baby’ is doing well considering the circumstances
The baby who was found in an underground waste container in Amsterdam-Zuidoost in February 2021 was barely saved. The girl was naked in a shopping bag and was hypothermic. She was not seriously injured. Even though garbage bags were thrown into the container when she was already there.
The child is now 2.5 years old and is doing well under the circumstances. The police tracked down the parents through a receipt that was in the shopping bag.
The suspects reported to the police on February 24, 2021, after the discovery of the baby in the container had been widely reported in the news.
Investigation showed that the suspects also had a child in 2019. In November 2021, the police found a baby body of a girl in a garden in Amsterdam-Zuidoost. It is unclear how the baby was killed. Both parents remain silent about this.
The pair were allowed to await the verdict in freedom, but were arrested again immediately after the court’s ruling.
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2023-10-03 13:41:34
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